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R&L Aerial Posted at 2017-4-30 09:19
I'm not sure, I took a DNA test which said I was 75% Irish and the only other thing I have to go off is my grandmother used to say we were black Irish, what ever that means?
One such example is that of the hundreds of thousands of Irish peasants who emigrated to America after the Great Famine of 1845 to 1849. 1847 was known as 'black 47'. The potato blight which destroyed the main source of sustenance turned the vital food black. It is possible that the arrival of large numbers of Irish after the famine into America, Canada, Australia and beyond resulted in their being labelled as 'black' in that they escaped from this new kind of black death.
1 million Irish people died as a result of the great famine. |
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